Mark Kirk Quotes

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we would have to do away with the universe. All the things man touches are impregnated with meaning.

Symbols are important.

I gravitate towards strong messages and things that make an impact.

If you throw the pebble in the pond and the rings start circulating that much wider, you've done things and created things for people that they didn't think they'd ever be able to do. That excites me.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

The medium is the message.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

I'm not trying to steer people in a direction. I'm just trying to move them. Wherever it takes them, it doesn't matter to me. I just want them to be moved in one way or another, and that's a hard thing to do, I think.

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

Changes in our aesthetic tastes have no value or meaning in and of themselves; what has value and meaning is the idea of change itself. Or, better stated: not change in and of itself, but change as an agent or inspiration of modern creations.

I was brought up in a family of leaders, and I think leadership is a life sentence. I like changing things that will shape the future.

Words are the small change of thought.

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through things.

Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.

Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also and keep pace with the times

A symbol is an important thing. That is why we chose an Aztec eagle. It gives pride...When people see it they know it means dignity

So much emotion is invested in symbols as opposed to substance.

Some talk change. Others cause it..

Symbols are important. It depends on how they're used.

It's not a question of size, of whether it's a small or a big thing, but of what it has the power to incarnate.

The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.